Famed biologist Jane Goodall recalls the gradual destruction of the chimpanzee's natural habitat and their rapidly declining numbers. She presents the plight of the chimpanzee as just one example of a species that has been pushed to "the brink of extinction" by human factors.

Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Goodall, DBE, is an English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist.

She is best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park for 45 years, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute.